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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, p. 84-95.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times does Rosencrantz say he has won the game?
(a) Seventy nine
(b) One hundred
(c) Fifty six
(d) Eighty five

2. What is Rosencrantz's emotional condition as a result of his encounters?
(a) He is apologetic for winning all of Guildenstern's money.
(b) Rosencrantz continues to feel stressed and seems to feel a death is coming.
(c) He is confident that everything will now turn out all right.
(d) He understands everything that is happening around him.

3. What does Gertrude tell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
(a) Hamlet has spoken of them and that she knows how fond of them he is.
(b) There are two of them and Hamlet is alone.
(c) They should get Ophelia to help them.
(d) Hamlet will talk to them because they are strangers.

4. What does Rosencrantz demand of the troupe?
(a) That must provide an excellent performance at court, and may not present their usual smutty acts.
(b) That they must not mention having met them on the road to the court.
(c) That they clean their costumes before they perform at court.
(d) That they use court language when they address Hamlet, Claudius, and Gertrude.

5. What two different meanings do they seem to apply to the word madness?
(a) Either jealousy or revenge
(b) Either insanity or anger
(c) Either fear or excitement
(d) Either hate or love

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprise does Rosencrantz get when he thinks he's playing with the Queen?

2. When the troupe moves on, why does the Player stand in one place?

3. How does Guildenstern see the way the game keeps going?

4. Where does Rosencrantz want to go?

5. How much does the Player say it will cost for them to perform a gory romance?

(see the answer key)

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